1. Ada C Bello was a Cuban-American LGBT rights activist and medical laboratory researcher of Portuguese descent.
22 Facts About Ada Bello
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Ada Bello was a founder of the Philadelphia Chapter of Daughters of Bilitis and the Homophile Action League.
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Ada Bello was born on November 6,1933, in Havana, Cuba.
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Ada Bello's mother was a homemaker from Madeira and her father was a lawyer and judge.
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Ada Bello lived in Matanzas before moving to Havana to study.
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Ada Bello attended University of Havana from 1953 until 1956, upon Fulgencio Batista's closing of the university, and she transferred to Louisiana State University afterwards.
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Ada Bello resided in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from 1958 to 1961, before moving to Picayune, Mississippi, for a year.
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Ada Bello worked for the University of Pennsylvania as a medical laboratory assistant from 1962 to 1980.
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Ada Bello became a medical laboratory researcher at University of Pennsylvania in 1980 and later worked for the Food and Drug Administration.
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Ada Bello moved to Philadelphia in 1962 where she participated in LGBT social and political organizing.
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In 1967, Ada Bello became a founding member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis.
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Ada Bello edited the DOB-Philadelphia newsletter with fellow activist Carole Friedman.
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Ada Bello worked as the editor of the HAL newsletter which challenged police harassment against the LGBT community.
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In 1968, Ada Bello decided to become an activist after the Philadelphia Police Department raided Rusty's Bar, a local lesbian bar, and arrested 12 women.
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Ada Bello attended the final two Annual Reminder day protests in 1968 and 1969, having received US citizenship in 1968.
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Ada Bello volunteered for the American Library Association's Gay Task Force under Barbara Gittings and was a supporter of the William Way LGBT Community Center where she served as co-chair.
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Ada Bello served on the board of the Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force.
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Ada Bello organized the predecessor of the AIDS Fund, the From All Walks of Life.
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Ada Bello served on the panel at the LGBT Aging Summit in 2010, alongside local LGBT activist Heshie Zinman.
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On July 4,2015, Ada Bello was one of the participants in the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Reminder day protests and LGBT Civil Rights Movement, held at Independence Hall.
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Ada Bello died from complications of COVID-19 and pneumonia in Philadelphia, on March 31,2023, at the age of 89.
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Ada Bello received the 2015 David Acosta Revolutionary Leader Award from the Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative.